What The Hell...?

Monkeybonk

<div class="IPBDescription">This is freaky...</div> I've joined like 10 servers that have had this happen: There will be 2 or 3 people in game, and about 16 people jsut standing in the ready room. Not moving at all, like they're link dead. It's wierd... what is this?

Epidemic

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Catpoker

was their ping 5?

if so they were bots, and bots dont have waypoints in the readyroom

Windelkron

good call, catpoker

MasterEvilAce

if they are bots, then people use them to "populate" their servers

IE: if you see a server 0 /16 players, are you going to join it? no

if you see it with 14/16, you'll probably join

those 14 players could be bots, that the server admins added to make people think there was action going on.

i hate it.. absolutely hate it when admins do that and waste my time

CommunistWithAGun

I usually leave a message of hate. "Omg baited again by a admin who obviously needs to be beaten. Oh and by the way, your bots obviously didn't work because I'm leaving now." Oh well.

TheFrag

yep, if you looks through met amod plugins you can find one that puts people in ready room so people will join.

StoatBringer

I've occasionally joined a server which said it had 21/24 players, only to find there was one other player online. Not even any bots. I thought maybe the server had just crashed, so disconnected and refreshed it on the listing and it still said 21/24.
Are some servers just buggy, or deliberately set up to falsely advertise their player count?

Monkeybonk

In tribes2 some **** had made a mod that made all player counts say 255/XX so they'd ALWAYS be at the top of the list. He was the laughingstock of the whole mod comunity.

killswitch

Ya seen that as well, been searching for new servers as a result.

Iced_Eagle

maybe they were idle... but i highly doubt that many

bots most likely like catpoker said.... if u use HLSW you can look at the names/frags/player time and then you can know if they are bots or not....

ZiGGY

<!--QuoteBegin--StoatBringer+Aug 12 2003, 09:00 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (StoatBringer @ Aug 12 2003, 09:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I've occasionally joined a server which said it had 21/24 players, only to find there was one other player online. Not even any bots. I thought maybe the server had just crashed, so disconnected and refreshed it on the listing and it still said 21/24.
Are some servers just buggy, or deliberately set up to falsely advertise their player count? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
sounds like the server redirection used on thehavennet when the server is full